John is an adventurer who lives a little more than half the year in the Portland, Oregon area, with his partner, and the rest of the year up in Alaska, on the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage. His income is very minimal – in the $3000-6000/year range – and so he lives very simply, camping in a tent and often cooking outdoors. And he makes money by taking on the occasional gig (which has included paid storytelling) and selling re-tooled motor scooters. He left his full-time union job being a grocery store meat cutter a couple years prior because he was done with unpleasant competitiveness of the working world.